| | A cycle of violence and counter-violence is devastating the lives
of adivasis in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, a Maoist
“liberated area”. There is no official record of the number of
persons killed as a result of the brutal violence of the Salwa Judum.
While the Maoists had put an end to the severe harassment of the
adivasis by forest and police officials, successfully resisted
domination and oppression of the adivasis by the patel-patwari,
and raised the rate for picking the tendu leaf, there are certain
conflicts of interest in the present context of a counter-insurgency
that have created a divide within the tribal community, which
makes the present atmosphere tense.
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